Comments on: Yeah, I’d Say Making Kindergarten Kids Stand Outside Naked in the Cold is a Tad Excessive

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:08:32 +0000

What IS abuse though?

I’m pretty sure that stripping toddlers and forcing them to stand outside in freezing temperatures would qualify.

By: foflappy

foflappy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:56:33 +0000

Sister-in-law informed me last night that the head of the shool visited to return the registration money they had paid a year ago. 50,000 Won. Also, that the teacher tried to kill herself. Sad indeed.

By: mcnut

mcnut — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:20:19 +0000

#19 okay let me correct it LOSER

which to answer your question would be YOU who points out typos on blogs

By: NewYorkTom

NewYorkTom — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:09:11 +0000

What IS abuse though?

I got spanked by my mom growing up but I dont consider it abuse. I deserved it every time.

My dad never ever hit me but he used to give me the silent treatment for days at a time when he was upset with me. That was probably more traumatic to me than the spanking. Some may consider that abuse.

Personally, I would NEVER hit my kids bc that’s just my preference.

On an interesting note, I noticed that American parents tend to ground you and make you stay home when they’re upset while Korean parents want you to leave the house. Am I the only one here that experienced this?

I remember threatening to leave home at age 10 and my mom called my bluff. I came back home two hours later. Yes, I’m a wuss.

By: boshintang

boshintang — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:37 +0000

#19: sniff… I smell English teacher syndrome

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:02:47 +0000

#17: What’s a “looser?”

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:59:21 +0000

My heart ached when I saw the photo of one of the children on the Dave’s thread.

By: mcnut

mcnut — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:46:04 +0000

this place was right over here next to the hamilton hotel…..

crazy

i guess the mother has said she doesnt want the teacher to be punished but the prosecutors are filing charges and hopefully this looser goes to jail

but i doubt it

By: user-81

user-81 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:07:06 +0000

What I wrote in #10 seems to have been taken the wrong way by Maddlew and hitest. I asked the question out of genuine curiosity: it keeps being brought up as some kind of truism, but I myself don’t know of any specific cases… so I asked. It wasn’t a statement.

Maddlew (#14 and #15) I wasn’t being ‘flippant’ about the E2 regulations and I wasn’t suggesting ‘we should take it without a peep.’ I mentioned the E2 regulations not to dismiss them, but to recognize that the (serious) E2 issue is (by the Korean government’s own admission) AT LEAST ONE result of the media frenzy. My question is: are there others?

hitest, did that list of problems also occur before the media frenzy?

By: Maddlew

Maddlew — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:44:55 +0000

I also wouldn’t be so flippant about the new E-2 regulations. You mentioned it as if it were something easily dismissed. I guarantee you that for some it is a source of real consternation.
I’m not just talking about those aberrant few.